I know there was another thread on this but I can't find it now. Sorry.
On the MVP:
After watching a video file and hitting the stop button the screen returns to the Video Archive screen but then looses connection and eternally sits on the connecting to server screen. Meanwhile my CPU is a 90-100% until I restart the gbpvr service.
I am having a problem with these empty, unwanted, sometimes duplicate channels appearing in the TV Guide. I have tried emptying the EPG but it doesn't fix the problem. How can I get rid of them? (Channels "ISTATE" "PAXS" and "NEW")
I'm running 0.94.12. The problem has been happening for several versions now.
I would like to see MHEG-5 support built in as this is the next generation of teletext.
I am new to this product and have a few issues.
Technical documentation is very sparse
In DVB broadcast regions the (Red, Green, Blue, Yellow Buttons have desginated uses), Please don't assing these buttons for other uses it will catch up with you eventually.
Their appears to be issues with video resizing and zero value coming back from the tuning modules causing upteen .NET errors and most annoying is the loss of the mouse pointer at this point.
Sorry if this seems a little negative about the program.
But I have looked at most of the Media Products around (Free & Commercial) They all lack something. This excludes Linux products as I have not got a system around at the moment with Linux.
Both Medial Portal and GB-PVR I think have the best chance of providing a goos solution. THey both seem to suffer from tuner crashes and resizing issues.
Medial Portal has the edge with its slicker skins, but this is a trival thing and the author wants to improve the skin any way.
Why not make the system use the same skins as the Meedio Project thier appear to be plenty of free ones out their.
Thanks for the program, I am keeping an eye on it. I am keen to see one of these products succeed. It a shame that commercially no of them really make the grade yet.
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the bda.ini file has a syntax error. Check the Compro Videomate T200 Section. 2 lines appear as one. Need a carriage return in their I think.
Could anyone tell me how i could look at a running graph of gbpvr transcoding a avi for playback on the mvp. The reason for this is i can not get ffdshow to work when using the mvp. ffdshow works fine when i play avis on the computer. I do have the option set to use ffdshow with transcode.
I don't see the "My Pictures" plug-in in the current wiki.
I see it in the old wiki.
Is this just a mistake... or is the "My Pictures" plug-in no longer desirable?
I'm new to gbpvr, and this is the only picture viewing plug-in I'm aware of.
When I do "Empty EPG", there is a warning on "any pending scheduled recordings to to deleted".
After the "Empty EPG", the reoccuring manual recordings can still be seen when I click "Reoccurring". However, they don't show up as pending when I click "Pending". The only way to make them pending is to delete and re-entry these reoccurring manual recordings. Is there an easier way to do it? :confused:
I have been watching both this and the Hauppauge Forums for some time now as I am planning to rejig the lounge and TV viewing. I thought that I would share my plans, invite commets and keep you posted as to what works (for me) and what doesn't. GBPVR will be part of the plans, but there are still undecided items and theories to be tried.
It's a big project and so will take me quite some time to achieve everything. The macro plan is:
1. Transfer all old analogue media to digital to allow analogue facilites to be discarded eventually. My music collection is complete. I am now starting on the VHS and 8mm, which includes precious footage of the family growing up. I bought a PVR150 to assist me in this and have got over the hurdles with that and am on the way. It will probabaly take several months of careful capture and trimming to get it right. I am keeping the MPEG2 files (not DVD) but storing them on Data DVD. Later I might put them back on line.
2. Get overall plan of room and facilities approved by family. Mostly OK, but some principles still need to be sold (the technical ones).
3. Find and select furniture (!) to be able to give pleasing effect and hold the equipment - which thankfully is reducing.
4. Progess technical design and figure out all those details to WAF standard. The basic idea is that all current TV/Video/Audio kit goes. It will be replaced by a flat Panel (contender is Sharp LC37GD7E, which has a Freeview tuner built in and would be easy for live TV, also has DVI for the computer) and a single machine which will do PVR functions including record TV, play recorded programmes and other files (including DVD), play MP3 (ripping probably elsewhere on the network) and photos. Computer is most likely a custom built box with two DVBT tuners inside and needs to be quiet. It will be networked to other machines around the house including another server where they can mutually back up stuff.
5. Try out ideas on existing spare kit.
6. Decorate room, buy furniture, build and install the real thing.
7. Enhance to taste.
Obviously a lot to do, but you need something over the winter.
Some unresolved things (by no means comprehensive):
a) Speakers. I don't yet know what I will go for here, nor how I will drive them. Will I rely on the Sharp (if selected) or go the full n.1 where n>=5. Will the main driver be the computer or the Sharp (it has SPDIF in and out). There is WAF input here.
b) Control. I sort of like the idea of a full wireless keyboard to be able to use any application but there seems to be a leaning towards remote controls in the applications and forums. I notice that GBPVR has some gaps in mouse support (e.g. scheduling a manual recording is clearly a keystroke/remote process) and this could be a deciding factor.
c) TV/Screen. I have toyed with the idea of a small auxilliary LCD (on a second DVI) in addition to the TV (full screen) for controlling things or just viewing other applications at the same time. I haven't tested if anything can do this but it would require the control bit to be separate from the screen bit (like Nero). This could be quite cool as you web surf without disturbing the TV.
d) GBPVR will almost certainly be the recording agent but I am not yet sure whether it will be the the main or only viewer.
I would wecome comments, but obviously plans are still fluid and a lot of experiments to be done, decisions to be made and work to do.
Hi everyone,
I would first thank the people working on the project and tell them they're doing a great job !
The reason i'm posting here is that I have some problems with the 4/3 - 16/9 commuting. I just formatted my pc, before the format everything was working very well but now I have a problem when I zap from a channel that is in 16/9 to a channel in 4/3. The 4/3 channel screen is splitted in two parts, the left part is the feed from the channel, the other is a part of the previous channel. As I said, i didn't have that problem before the format. What's missing ?
I have a pinnacle pal 300i media center DVB-T card. I'm talking about DVB-T Channels.
My OS is WinXP SP2 and i've installed the drivers and software from pinnacle cd...
I am a total Nube at this so please forgive me.... I own a wintv go-plus and am really disappointed with the software GBPVR looks fantastic... but this card is not supported...YET?? (I type hopefully) Is there anything that can be suggested short of investing even more money into a new card. a forum search for "WINTV GO" found nothing. I am running win WX pro and the driver is WinTV 878/9WDM
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It will probabaly take several months of careful capture and trimming to get it right. I am keeping the MPEG2 files (not DVD) but storing them on Data DVD. Later I might put them back on line.